Is this a managed SOC — do you watch our estate for us?

No. We design and build it so your team can run it well, with the operating model to do so. A 24/7 managed service is a different offering.

Which Defender for Cloud plans do we need?

Only the ones that protect what you run. We enable them selectively rather than everything at once, so the cost and the noise stay justified.

Can you cover our on-premises servers?

Yes — that is what Azure Arc is for. We onboard them so they’re governed and protected alongside Azure.

Do we need Microsoft Sentinel as well?

Sometimes. Defender for Cloud covers posture and workload protection; Sentinel is the SIEM for correlation and hunting. We’ll say plainly whether you need it.

Who operates it day to day?

Your team. We build the operating model around their capacity and hand it over.

How do you stop it being noisy?

By tuning what’s enabled to your estate and defining severity up front, so the alerts that reach a person are the ones worth their attention.

Consulting

Security operations & management.

Security isn't a one-off project — it's something you run. We design and build the management plane for it: Microsoft Defender for Cloud for posture and threat protection, and Azure Arc to bring on-premises and multi-cloud resources under the same management — so you can see your whole estate and act on what you see.

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The problem

You'll recognise this.

You deployed Azure securely. But security isn’t a project you finish — it’s something you run, every day. Defender for Cloud is generating recommendations nobody has time to act on, half your estate is on-premises or in another cloud and effectively invisible, and no one clearly owns the day-to-day. On top of that, you are running separate security systems for on-premises and for each cloud you use.

The gap isn’t tooling. It’s an operating model: what gets watched, who acts, on what, and how you tell signal from noise before an alert that mattered is lost among the ones that didn’t.

What you get

Senior depth, handed over.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud set up for posture management and workload protection.
Azure Arc extending governance and security to resources outside Azure.
Alerting and management your team can operate day to day.

How we'd approach it

The decisions that matter.

Defender for Cloud, tuned to your estate.

Why: A posture score and a short list of things that actually matter is useful. Everything enabled at once, generating noise nobody reads, is worse than nothing.

What we'd rule out: Turning on every plan and every alert and calling it coverage.

Azure Arc to bring everything under one plane.

Why: You can’t manage or protect what you can’t see. Arc extends Azure governance and Defender to on-premises and other clouds, so the whole estate is in one view.

What we'd rule out: A different security tool for each environment, with no single picture.

Clear ownership, not just configuration.

Why: Operable beats installed. A named owner and an agreed response for the common alerts is what turns a dashboard into actual security.

What we'd rule out: A handover document that describes the tools but not how to run them.

What you get

Deliverables.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud configured for posture and workload protection, tuned to reduce noise.
An Azure Arc onboarding approach for on-premises and multi-cloud resources.
Other Arc-enabled services provisioned to your non-Azure machines — Azure Policy, Azure Update Manager, Machine Configuration and more, run from Azure.
An alerting and severity model — what matters, and who acts.
An agreed response for the common alerts, and a management cadence.
A handover so your team operates it, not just inherits it.

Out of scope

What it isn't.

It is not a 24/7 managed SOC or managed detection and response service.
A full Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) build-out is related but scoped separately.
Incident response on retainer is a separate arrangement.

The shape of it

How it fits together.

One management plane — native and Arc-connected resources on the same spine; alerts end at a named owner.

Azure resources are native to the management plane; on-premises servers and resources in other clouds join it through Azure Arc, so all three sit on the same spine under one policy set. Microsoft Defender for Cloud produces a posture score and prioritised recommendations across the whole estate. In the operating model, many alerts fan into a severity triage that lets only the few that matter through, and those follow a single path to a named owner who acts on them — so alerts end at a person, not a dashboard.

How we work

With your team, not around them.

We configure it around your estate and your team's capacity, and hand it over so it is operable, not just installed.

Who it's for: We work with mid-to-large enterprise, State and semi-State bodies, education, and the partner consultancies who bring us in when a client needs senior Azure depth.

Questions

Frequently asked.

Is this a managed SOC — do you watch our estate for us?: No. We design and build it so your team can run it well, with the operating model to do so. A 24/7 managed service is a different offering.
Which Defender for Cloud plans do we need?: Only the ones that protect what you run. We enable them selectively rather than everything at once, so the cost and the noise stay justified.
Can you cover our on-premises servers?: Yes — that is what Azure Arc is for. We onboard them so they’re governed and protected alongside Azure.
Do we need Microsoft Sentinel as well?: Sometimes. Defender for Cloud covers posture and workload protection; Sentinel is the SIEM for correlation and hunting. We’ll say plainly whether you need it.
Who operates it day to day?: Your team. We build the operating model around their capacity and hand it over.
How do you stop it being noisy?: By tuning what’s enabled to your estate and defining severity up front, so the alerts that reach a person are the ones worth their attention.

Related consulting

Often needed alongside.

Azure Security & Zero Trust

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Azure Landing Zones

Enterprise-scale foundations built to the Well-Architected Framework — governance, networking and identity from day one.

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Fixed scope, fixed price — quoted on enquiry.

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